Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc.Mogg, Edward S.
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Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc.
Mogg, Edward S.
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|the largest markets for sheep and black cattle in the county,
|which not only supplies the city, but sends vast quantities to
|Portsmouth and London.
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94|Chicklade, Wilts, 163. A parish containing 25 houses, and 150
|inhabitants.
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93|Chicklade Bottom, Wilts, 163.
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40|Chidingfold, Surrey, 37. A parish containing 162 houses, and 848
|inhabitants.
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137|Chidiock, Dorset, 112. A township and chapelry, containing 107
|houses, and 578 inhabitants.
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117|Chilcompton, Somerset, 188. A parish containing 74 houses, and 348
|inhabitants.
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|Chilhampton, Wilts, 208.
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134|Chillington Down, Somerset, 143.
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162|Chilson, Somerset, 194.
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162|Chilson Heathfield, Somerset, 194.
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66|Chilton, Berks, 181. A parish containing 48 houses, and 244
|inhabitants. This place gave birth to the Lord Chief Justice
|Crook.
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140|Chilton, Somerset, 191. A parish containing 53 houses, and 310
|inhabitants.
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88|Chilvester Hill, Wilts, 185.
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|Chilworth, Hants, 211. A parish containing 18 houses, and 132
|inhabitants.
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|Chilworth Common, Hants, 211.
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125|Chinnock, East, Somerset, 142. A parish containing 60 houses, and
|505 inhabitants. This place is noted for a brackish spring,
|although 20 miles from the sea.
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125|Chinnock Hutts, Somerset, 142.
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93|=Chippenham=, Wilts, 185. A borough and market town, situated on
|the river Avon, over which it has a handsome bridge of 16 arches,
|and is mentioned to have been of considerable strength and
|importance in the time of Alfred the Great. The church is a
|venerable Gothic structure, supposed to have been built by the
|Hungerford family, whose arms are still to be seen upon its walls.
|The houses in general are neat and well built. It has a
|considerable manufacture of superfine woollen cloth; sends two
|members to parliament, and contains 667 houses, and 3366
|inhabitants. The market on Saturday is well supplied with all
|kinds of provision, and great quantities of corn.
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74|Cholderton, Wilts, 160. A parish containing 35 houses, and 127
|inhabitants.
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69|Cholderton, East, Hants, 159.
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100|=Christchurch=, Hants, 94. A borough and market town, pleasantly
|situated at the conflux of the rivers Avon and Stour, which, about
|a mile and a half distant, falls into the sea at Christchurch bay.
|It derives its name from a collegiate church built here by the
|West Saxons, and was formerly called Christchurch Twynham, and had
|also a castle.
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|The river Avon was made navigable from Salisbury in 1680, and is
|famous for its salmon fishery. A little to the east is Hordell
|Cliff, which runs for a mile along the shore, and is 150 feet
|above the level of the sea. Christchurch sends two members to
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